General practitioners should provide the cardiorespiratory rehabilitation' 'minimum advice' for long COVID-19 patients

Wafa Benzarti, Emna Toulgui, Christian Prefaut, Karim Chamari, Helmi Ben Saad, Wafa Benzarti, Emna Toulgui, Christian Prefaut, Karim Chamari, Helmi Ben Saad

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Keywords: Family Physicians; Guidelines; Post-Acute Covid; Pulmonary rehabilitation; SARS-COV-2.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Figure 1.
Cardiorespiratory rehabilitation (CRR) schedule for long COVID-19 patients
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Figure 2.
Methods of dyspnea evaluation. A. Visual analogue scale. B. Modified medical research council
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Figure 3.
Exercise-training items

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